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Books like Troubleshooters: 9 series to read next

Troubleshooters is science fiction and hard science fiction, about genetic engineering, set in asteroid belt, adventurous in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Troubleshooters is 5 books, 2012–2025.

“Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning exotic new societies and strange new varieties of humans.”
from the catalogue description of Only Superhuman

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CoDominium
Alliance-Union
Imperial Galaxy
Vatta
Foundation
Janissaries
Honorverse
Dune
Old Man's War

CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction, set in other star systems.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
from the catalogue description

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Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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Imperial GalaxySeries

seriesGarth Nix2 books2012

Space opera, about coming of age, set in other star systems.

“Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes follows Khemri through the empire's ruthless military, its secret intelligence service, and a deadly, decades-long competition to determine who might one day take the throne.”
from the catalogue description

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VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Space opera and military science fiction, set in other star systems.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
from the catalogue description

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FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
from the catalogue description

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JanissariesSeries

seriesJerry Pournelle, Roland J. Green, David Weber & Phillip Pournelle4 books1979

Military science fiction, about war and slavery, set in other star systems.

“Janissaries are an American series of military and political-based science fiction novels are set in an interstellar confederation of races, in which humans are a slave race entrusted with military affairs and law enforcement.”
from the catalogue description
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HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Space opera and military science fiction, set in other star systems.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
from the catalogue description

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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, set in other star systems.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue description

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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Military science fiction and space opera, about war, set in other star systems.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

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Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after Troubleshooters?: CoDominium — the closest match to Troubleshooters on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Troubleshooters?: Only Superhuman. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Troubleshooters.
How big is Troubleshooters?: Troubleshooters is 5 books, 2012–2025.

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